These cinnamon ferns are new for me this year. I have enjoyed watching the fronds uncurl and now the fertile fronds are appearing that look like cinnamon sticks. It is a very healthy looking specimin.
Mary from Gainesville, GA

Cinnamon fern is one of the last ferns to unfurl in spring.

Cinnamon Fern with spore frond

Cinnamon fern in spring

Cinnamon fern with fertile fiddleheads

Fertile cinnemon fiddleheads close-up

So fuzzy!

Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)

Cinnamon Fern (Osmunda cinnamomea)

Cinnamon Fern at the Rhododendron Gardens, Federal Way, Wash. - early May 2006

April 17 2006 - My favorite Fern :)

May 5 2006

Osmunda cinnamomea crozier unfurling in June.

This is my 2nd year with the Cinnamon fern. Great plant!

Growing in Tennessee

Growing in Tennessee

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum - Cinnamon Fern fiddleheads

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum - Cinnamon Fern with emerging fertile fronds

Osmundastrum cinnamomeum - Cinnamon Fern

7-2011 *DKP Garden, Milford, MI

7-2011 *DKP Garden, Milford, MI

7-2011 *DKP Garden, Milford, MI

7-2011 *DKP Garden, Milford, MI

The central fertile fronds showing in May 2012 in se PA, with infertile fronds around

This species gets good autumn color as these leaves in se PA in October 2010